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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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October 29, 2007 5:07 PM
Loan Sharks Giving Big to Dems
From the Columbia State:
"Donations plentiful to candidates in midst of possible predatory lending regulation...Payday lenders have given nearly $64,000 to the 2008 candidates for president, with a vast majority of that going to Democrats, many of whom have accused the industry of unfair lending practices...Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, a U.S. senator from New York, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson each has received more than $22,000 from payday lending sources, more than any other candidates during the campaign."
This is gross, but not surprising. The Democratic Party helped Republicans ram the Bankruptcy Bill through Congress.
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The loan sharks having been giving to and RAPING the Democrats for nearly 30 years with the GOP being the biggest of them. However, since Democrats act like ABUSED SPOUSES and go out of their way to put down people who stand up to this kind of ABUSIVE behavior, it's time to ABOLISH ABOLISH ABOLISH the Democratic Party and rebuild a new Progressive Independent Party !
The Democratic party is clearly unresponsive to the public. You can see it with their refusal to address any of these basic issues. Issues that used to be their bread and butter.
* Identity theft.
* Bankruptcy law
* Credit card interest rates
* Strengthing OSHA
* Enforcing labor laws
* Trade
* Off-shoring and in-sourcing
* consumer product protection
I could go on, but its evident the Democratic party is no longer functional at the national level.
At the state level Democrats seem to be obsessed with a social issues only approach that has alienated them from middle-class homeowners and the like. Democrats tend to see homeowners merely as a source of funds for their social engineering programs.
The Democratic party is split between the Republi-lite sell-outs and the Blue Dog Republicans-in-drag, and the REST OF US.
Most state level candidates are populists who listen to their constituents.
2006 was a start with some of the state-level populists moving up to Washington.
We need to support more populists and work to eliminate the sell-outs who are Democrat in name only.
There is no time to start building some fictitious "winning third party" and the existing ones are losers.
We need to take back the Democrats, support populist candidates by sending them contributions, and working for them, and refusing to send any money whatsoever to the DNC/DLC or any of its offshoots.
Fire the sell-outs, work for the populists, don't fund the national party.
The Democratic party is split between the Republi-lite sell-outs and the Blue Dog Republicans-in-drag, and the REST OF US.
Most state level candidates are populists who listen to their constituents.
2006 was a start with some of the state-level populists moving up to Washington.
We need to support more populists and work to eliminate the sell-outs who are Democrat in name only.
There is no time to start building some fictitious "winning third party" and the existing ones are losers.
We need to take back the Democrats, support populist candidates by sending them contributions, and working for them, and refusing to send any money whatsoever to the DNC/DLC or any of its offshoots.
Fire the sell-outs, work for the populists, don't fund the national party.
"There is no time to start building some fictitious "winning third party" and the existing ones are losers." - butte
You gave the Democrats 30 years and look what they've dumped on you, me, and everyone who trusted the party. They allowed the GOP, Wall Street, Religious "Right", etc ... to RAPE, ABUSE, and FUCK them to TOTAL MUTILIATION and I'm SUPERANGRY that the Democratic Party has no intention of pulling themselves out of this continued mess like a bunch of BATTERED SPOUSES staunchly defending their ABUSIVE partners !!!! If third parties are fictitious, then how come there's a growing anger against the two parties resembling the same anti-two-party sentiment that existed in the 1990s and why do more people associate with 3rd parties even though they might not vote for them? Both the Democrats and Republicans STEAL planks from 3rd parties, CHOKE them out on the media, SLAP FRIVOLOUS lawsuits to keep them off the ballots or at least defund them, make sure they get arrested right before an election, etc ... ! As for populist Democrats ? Look, they may be great at the state level but look what happens when they reach the federal level? Except for Sanders, none of these Democrats who ran as "populists" are proving that they really are populists and those who even try are getting NEUTERED and CASTRATED even to the point of having to drown into sellout mode !!
I'm sorry but the Democratic Party is WAY BEYOND REPAIR given their pathetic governing behavior especially in Washington and this year alone is the worst of it with worse most likely to come next year. It's time for Progressives to STOP WASTING TIME and MONEY "appeasing" the "conservative" and/or "sellout" wing of the Democratic Party and START building a new party, infrastructure, think tanks, and real unity.
P.S.:
If you want to know how angry I am, let me tell you a real live event that kept me this angry. Once, I had a dog who was nice and lovely but my wife was almost mugged by a robber who happened to also be the previous owner of that second hand dog we got from the pound. Not only did the FUCKED up dog not help my wife but he actually defended the robber against my wife. Luckily, I got home just in time and , with my loaded shotgun hidden in my basement, ANGRILY killed the dog and the robber. Yeah, I had to fucking fight in court on animal murder and homicide charges but my wife and neighbors helped me out. So what does this have to do with my anger against the Democrats ?!?!? The Democrats are no different than that FUCKED UP dog I had to shoot and the same thing with the GOP being exactly like the robbers. I learned from all that that when someone or a group BETRAYS you even to the point of knowingly supporting its abuser against you, it's time to SHOOT THAT MOTHERFUCKER DOWN and that's why I'll keep pounding on that it's high past time the Democratic Party and the GOP were ABOLISHED even if I sound like a madman !!!!
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